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Vote for fave July Archives treasure

Vote for fave July Archives treasure

The online poll is open. Now it’s time for you and others to choose your favorite Archives treasure for July. The three candidates: #1) Historic photos and documents of North Cascades Highway.  #2) Historic photos and documents of ferries.  #3) Photos related to Olympic torch and Washington Olympians. The online poll below is open until Friday at noon, so don’t forget to vote! We’ll blog about the winner Friday afternoon. [poll id=”19″]  

Archives treasure #3: Olympics-related photos

Archives treasure #3: Olympics-related photos

(Photos courtesy of Washington State Archives.) In case you haven’t seen the ads and TV promos, the world’s biggest sports event is coming soon. People throughout the world are getting excited about the 2012 Summer Olympics starting in London in only two weeks. London might be thousands of miles from our state, but our State Archives has a small collection of  photos related to the Olympics that will remind us that Washington has been touched (literally) by the Olympic flame….

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